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Photo of the Day - May 2009
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Brick Maker
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This brick maker has makes the US equivalent of $10 a day making bricks in Mexico.
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This brick maker has makes the US equivalent of $10 a day making bricks in Mexico.
Canon 50D, 70-200mm f/2.8, inadvertently polarized
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=50.990529,-115.074577&sll=50.975724,-114.686279&sspn=1.105065,1.96106&g=50.990529,-115.074577&ie=UTF8&ll=50.973994,-114.642334&spn=1.105106,1.96106&t=p&z=9&iwloc=A
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=50.990529,-115.074577&sll=50.975724,-114.686279&sspn=1.105065,1.96106&g=50.990529,-115.074577&ie=UTF8&ll=50.973994,-114.642334&spn=1.105106,1.96106&t=p&z=9&iwloc=A
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At first I was going to guess the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty Missouri. Heh. Looks very similar at least from my memory of checking it out a couple years ago.
Cool! I always love the kind of urban, tone mapped photo that when you first gaze upon it, you feel like you've just received a jolt or something! Drama! Only bit of nitpickery would be, for instance the slight movement in the banner on the right across the source images. That can be rectified with some careful masking in Photoshop (You probably know more about PS than I do though!)
When I do shots like this where I'm shooting into the sun and planning for HDR later, I'll set the aperture to the narrowest possible and and put on a moderate, middle range ISO for quick shutters when collecting the source images. Fun starbursts that way from the sun - usually works well. *I probably didn't have to tell you any of this, nuwomb!*
From the Baja archives...
This is a shot of Mariposa, who runs El Refugio animal refuge near Pescadero, Baja California Sur, admiring a new pup after her first bath (the first step after initial intake.) This pup was the only brown/tan pup in a litter of 5, all female. The other four were black. Since there were so many puppies turned into the refuge during the same timeframe, we started just naming the litters. I had named a similar litter of pups "Diana Ross and the Supremes," so this litter informally got named "Gladys Knight and the Pips." This particular puppy quickly found her way into my life, and she grew up to be one of my Mexican rescue dogs, and is known as G. Knight to this day... At the time I had no idea I'd wind up keeping her. Taken with a Canon A95 p/s.
This is a shot of Mariposa, who runs El Refugio animal refuge near Pescadero, Baja California Sur, admiring a new pup after her first bath (the first step after initial intake.) This pup was the only brown/tan pup in a litter of 5, all female. The other four were black. Since there were so many puppies turned into the refuge during the same timeframe, we started just naming the litters. I had named a similar litter of pups "Diana Ross and the Supremes," so this litter informally got named "Gladys Knight and the Pips." This particular puppy quickly found her way into my life, and she grew up to be one of my Mexican rescue dogs, and is known as G. Knight to this day...
At the time I had no idea I'd wind up keeping her. Taken with a Canon A95 p/s.
Sure is.. the sunset/scenery was less dramatic in person, so I figured I'd experiment with HDR and see if I could get anything decent.
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Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
